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Project STAMINA
We are a proud consortium member of STAMINA project (https://stamina-project.eu/), which has started in September 2020. The goal of the project is to develop an intelligent decision support platform for pandemic prediction and management. Institute of Computer Science at UM FERI is working together with Community Healthcare Centre Dr. Adolf Drolc, Maribor on identifying gaps in Slovenian pandemic management and pandemic meta-data description.

Top innovation on field of decoding brain-to-muscle signals
Prof. Dr. Aleš Holobar, head of the Institute of Computer Science, on January 27, 2021 at the event START: IP Matchmaking presented an important innovation in the field of decoding commands

Silver medal at the “Sarajevo 2020” Regional Virtual Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair
Invention »Decomposition of compound muscle action potentials« authored by prof. dr. Aleš Holobar received a silver medal at the “Sarajevo 2020” Regional Virtual Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair. Congratulations!

Invention »Decomposition of compound muscle action potentials« authored by prof. dr. Aleš Holobar received a silver medal at the ARCA 2020 innovation fair in Zagreb. Congratulations!

LSPO member dr. Martin Šavc was promoted to Doctor of Science. Congratulations!

The First Prize in IEEE Region 8 Student Competition goes to our Student Kristjan Stopar
Our student Kristjan Stopar won the first prize award at the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest (https://ieeer8.org/student-activities/spc2020result/). Together with his student colleagues Pia Žnidaršič and Urban Košale he developed a device for kinesthetic navigation of the blind and visually impaired. The final competition of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest has been organized in the framework of IEEE MELECON 2020 international conference (http://melecon2020.org/). Under supervision of assistant Jernej Kranjec and Prof. Aleš Holobar, Kristjan won the first prize award, despite being only in his 2nd year of the 1st Cycle Bologna Study Programme Computer Science and Information Technologies. Congratulations!

System Software Laboratory at the 2^nd international fair of modern medicine MEDICAL 2017
We presented advanced methods for interpretation of electromyograms, acquired by non-invasive surface electrodes and their potential clinical applications.

ROSUS 2017 Conference: "Call for papers" was issued. (Slovene only)

Members of the System Software Laboratory appeared on Slovenian national television RTV Slovenija and presented the latest achievements and perspectives in the field of bionic arm development and brain-computer and muscle-computer interfaces
The TV clip is available at:
http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/ugriznimo-znanost/174429954. (slovene only)

ROSUS 2015 Conference: "Call for papers" was issued. (Slovene only)

Workshop: Currrent and future applications of non-invasive and invasive BCIs
g.Tec and UM FERI are hosting a workshop about Brain Computer Interfaces.

In October 2014, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of System Software Laboratory.

DEMUSE - software for decomposition of multichannel surface electromyograms
A new version of the DEMUSE tool has been released. The tool enables fully automatic and highly accurate identification of motor unit discharge patterns out of multichannel surface electromyograms. For details, see demuse.feri.um.si.

RTV Slovenija crew led by the journalist Saška Jazbec shooted a reportage for the regional TELE M broadcast at the University Rehabilitation Institute Soča in Ljubljana. Prof. Dr. Imre Cikajlo (URI Soča), Prof. Dr. Damjan Zazula (System Software Laboratory of Maribor), and Prof. Dr. Nika Goljar (URI Soča) talked about the research and experience with a system of unobtrusive sensors that, developed within the Biomedical Engineering Competence Centre and installed in Dom Iris at Soča, measure and assess human functional health. TELE M broadcasted the reportage on July 16, 2014.

Prof. Dr. Aleš Holobar had an invited speech at The 11th Nanotehnology Day in Ljubljana on May 9, 2014. His speech on human-machine communication drew the attention of Saška Jazbec, a journalist of RTV Slovenija. She organised TV shooting of research achievements in the System Software Laboratory of Maribor. We demonstrated our own computer tool for a decomposition and analysis of muscle signals (EMG) and sensory devices and methods that we developed for unobtrusive measuring of functional-health parameters at home. The information (in Slovene) can be accessed at:

ROSUS 2014 Conference drew successfully to a close. Photos from this event are available.

New web pages of our lab were designed and released. It can also be accessed from http://lspo.uni-mb.si.

ROSUS 2014 Conference: "Call for papers" was issued. (Slovene only)

Professor dr. Damjan Zazula gave a talk in the Technical Museum of Slovenia entitled: "Moderna tehnologija omogoča spremljanje našega zdravstvenega stanja noč in dan kar doma (Modern Technology Enables Monitoring of Our Health Round the Clock at Home)"

Student team called Beezinga whose member is also our labmate Jernej Škrabec, won the Slovenian Imagine Cup competition.

Our lab member, Sebastjan Šprager, defended his doctoral thesis.

ROSUS 2013 Conference drew successfully to a close.

ROSUS 2013 Conference begins today!

DEMUSE - software for decomposition of multichannel surface electromyograms
demuse.feri.um.si

Nina Murks on TVS1
Nina Murks, a member of the system software laboratory, was a guest on the Dobro Jutro show on Television Slovenia TVS1, where she talked about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT tool (slovene only).

ROSUS 2023 Conference
Slovenian only

Researchers from the System software laboratory at UM FERI contributed to an important discovery of the neuromuscular system functioning in humans
An international group of researchers published a paper in the ScienceAdvances journal, in which they presented a new methodology for monitoring the activity of motor neurons that innervate human skeletal muscles. The methodology is based on the acquisition and analysis of multichannel intramuscular electromyograms (EMG).

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In the study, the researchers proved that these innovative systems for capturing multichannel intramuscular EMG signals combined with computer algorithms developed at the Institute of Computer Science UM FERI, support monitoring of simultaneous activity of a relatively large number of motor neurons in the individual skeletal muscle. Up to 67 simultaneously active motor neurons were tracked with identification accuracy of 99% or above. These results significantly exceed the efficiency of the procedures known to date. The presented methodology enables the discovery of new mechanisms in the functioning of motor neurons, which could not be observed with the previously established measurement procedures. Among them, the study discusses the functional coupling of motor neurons at significantly higher frequencies than known until now (even at frequencies around 75 Hz) and measuring of the impact of the Renshaw cells inhibition on the motor neurons. The presented methodology and findings demonstrate the applicability of a new paradigm of human motor system analysis by means of large populations of concurrently active motor neurons. The contribution is available on the website https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abo5040?af=R

Professor Holobar at TwinBrain Workshop 2.0.
The head of the LSPO laboratory, Prof. dr. Aleš Holobar, gave a lecture entitled "What can we learn from surface EMG and neural codes" at TwinBrain Workshop 2.0. Workshop can be seen at the link below.

Institute of Computer Science has explained diffrence betweeen old and young muscles on Slovenian national TV (RTV) TV show "Ugriznimo znanost"
Show is available here (slovene only):

ROSUS 2022 Conference: Invitation to conference
We are inviting you to the 16th ROSUS conference 2022 (Slovene only)

Prof. Dr. Aleš Holobar was a guest of Jutro na Planetu, Planet TV
On December 21, 2021, in the show Jutro na Planetu on Planet TV, Prof. Dr. Aleš Holobar, head of the System Software Lab, spoke about the vision of chips that can be built into the brain and enable more advanced communication between humans and machines.

ROSUS 2022 Conference: Invitation to authors of articles
We are inviting you to the 16th ROSUS conference 2022. You are invited to participate! (Slovene only)

FERI Day 2021 awards and recognitions
The plaque of the dean of FERI for outstanding research was awarded to Prof. Dr. Aleš Holobar.

Top volunteer employed in public administration
Slovene Philanthropy, Association for Promotion of Volunteering, awarded our colleage Matej Krmberger "Top volunteer employed in public administration" title.

Project STAMINA
We are a proud consortium member of STAMINA project (https://stamina-project.eu/), which has started in September 2020.

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The goal of the project is to develop an intelligent decision support platform for pandemic prediction and management. Institute of Computer Science at UM FERI is working together with Community Healthcare Centre Dr. Adolf Drolc, Maribor on identifying gaps in Slovenian pandemic management and pandemic meta-data description.

Top innovation on field of decoding brain-to-muscle signals
Prof. Dr. Aleš Holobar, head of the Institute of Computer Science, on January 27, 2021 at the event START: IP Matchmaking presented an important innovation in the field of decoding commands